A counselor killed at Fort Hood on Wednesday was recalled as a brave man who always looked to help people.

Timothy Wayne Owens’ mother, Mary Muntean, said she received a call Wednesday night at her home in Effingham, Ill. The call was from Owens’ wife, Billy, informing Muntean that her son had died from five gunshot wounds from a weapon fired at close range in a parking lot at the fort.

“He was a brave man,” Muntean said. She said she was told by Owens’ wife, who married him last summer, that he was shot as he tried to calm the gunman.

Glen Welton, Owens’ first cousin, said Owens had one daughter with his first wife, Shelley, and step-children with his second wife, Billy. He’d had tours of duty in Iraq, Kuwait and other U.S. bases.

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